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The Disruptor Disrupted: The First Explicit xMOOC Failure
The cancellation “temporary suspension” of Coursera’s Fundamentals of Online Education course is a watershed moment in the rapidly growing world of MOOCs. Inside Higher Ed has summarized the problems...
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Defining “Rapid”
I missed this New York Times op-ed a few months back from John Markoff, who writes about computers and technology. It’s your standard MOOC media narrative — great change afoot, the potential to fix...
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The SJSU/Udacity MOOC Hiatus – A Crisis of Rhetoric
San Jose State University has pressed the pause button on its MOOC partnership with provider Udacity, and Internet response to the hold has largely viewed the development as a setback for MOOCs, one...
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Project Lessons Learned – Iteration 1 of the SJSU/Udacity Pilot
A research-based report of the results of SJSU’s Spring 2013 pilot of lower-level mathematics courses offered via Massive Open Online Course platform (though I do like the term Augmented Online...
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Udacity: Shifting Models Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
Exciting day for #Udacity. Cloudera class launched, Big Data track launched, many happy paying customers again. — Sebastian Thrun (@SebastianThrun) November 15, 2013 Just over a year ago (a year and...
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2013 in MOOCs – Which Event Best Defined the Quest to Solve Education?
As we say goodbye to 2013, the year after The Year of the MOOC, I remain unable to adequately define the acronym that graces this blog’s header. This year Oxford Dictionary gave it the old college...
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The Cognitive Style Revolution – Excerpts from MOOC Research
Note: I will use this space over the next month to share excerpts from my dissertation The Evolution & Impact of the Massive Open Online Course. The research was a Delphi study bringing together...
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MOOC History…or Lack Thereof – Excerpts from MOOC Research
Note: I will use this space over the next month to share excerpts from my dissertation The Evolution & Impact of the Massive Open Online Course. The research was a Delphi study bringing together 20...
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What We Cannot Learn from the Udacity/GT Partnership
Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education features an article by Steve Kolowich about the potential impact of the Udacity/Georgia Tech/AT&T online master’s program on the future cost of higher...
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MOOC 4.No
Putty. Putty. Putty. Green Putty – Grutty Peen. Grarmpitutty – Morning! Pridsummer – Grorning Utty! Discovery….. Oh. Putty?….. Armpit? Armpit….. Putty. Not even a particularly Nice shade of green. As I...
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The Udacity of Audacity (or “Education for Uber”)
Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Still worse again. Till sick for good. Throw up for good. – Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983) When I quote this passage from...
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MOOC 4.No
Putty. Putty. Putty. Green Putty – Grutty Peen. Grarmpitutty – Morning! Pridsummer – Grorning Utty! Discovery….. Oh. Putty?….. Armpit? Armpit….. Putty. Not even a particularly Nice shade of green. As I...
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The Udacity of Audacity (or “Education for Uber”)
Try again. Fail again. Better again. Or better worse. Fail worse again. Still worse again. Till sick for good. Throw up for good. – Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983) When I quote this passage from...
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There is no Open in MOOC
Coursera’s announcement to add Specializations to its roster of educational packages comes with a new price in many cases, as noted in Carl Straumsheim’s 1/29 piece at Inside Higher Ed. To sign up for...
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Three Things Yacht Rock and MOOCs Teach Us About MOOCs and Yacht Rock
You mean to tell me everything that happened was just so I would record a song for a Gregory Hines movie? Michael McDonald, Yacht Rock (Episode 12) If you’re affluent, we can do a much better job with...
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